- Demi Lovato said she is using she/her pronouns again.
- She said she has been feeling more feminine lately, which prompted her to start using she/her pronouns in addition to they/them.
Demi Lovato is using she/her pronouns again.
On the latest episode of the Spout Podcast, host Tamara Dhia admitted to Lovato that she still doesn't "quite understand" they/them pronouns. The pop star has been using they/them pronouns since May 2021, when she publicly came out as gender nonbinary.
"Yeah, so, they/them is, um, I've actually adopted the pronouns of she/her again," Lovato said. "So, for me, I'm such a fluid person. I felt like, especially last year, my energy was balanced in my masculine and feminine energy so that when I was faced with the choice of walking into a bathroom and it said 'women' and 'men,' I didn't feel like there was a bathroom for me because I didn't feel necessarily like a woman. I didn't feel like a man."
"I just felt like a human. And that's what they/them is about for me. It's just about, like, feeling human at your core," they continued.
Lovato said that recently she has been feeling more feminine again, which prompted her to use she/her pronouns in addition to they/them.
"I think what's important is nobody's perfect," the singer said. "Everyone messes up pronouns at some point, and especially when people are learning. It's just all about respect."
Indeed, Lovato previously told fans that she is not offended by getting misgendered as long as the person is making an effort to learn.
"I accidentally misgender myself sometimes! It's a huge transition to change the pronouns I've used for myself my entire life," they shared on social media last July. "It's all about your intention. It's important to me that you try, but if you make a mistake, it's okay."
As of April, Lovato's Instagram bio was updated to reflect her pronoun preferences. It now reads "they/them/she/her."
The "Substance" rocker has spoken several times about her evolving approach to both gender and sexuality. She previously came out as pansexual during an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast in March 2021.
"I'm so fluid now, and a part of the reason why I am so fluid is because I was, like, super closeted off," Lovato said.
When Rogan asked whether Lovato liked women or men, she replied: "Yeah, anything, really."
Lovato also said she feels "too queer" to be romantic or sexual with a cisgender man, shortly after calling off her two-month engagement to actor Max Ehrich.
"This past year I was engaged to a man, and when it didn't work, I was like, 'This is a huge sign.' I thought I was going to spend my life with someone. Now that I wasn't going to, I felt this sense of relief that I could live my truth," Lovato told Glamour last year.
"I'm very much listening to my intuition, and that's not to say my boundaries or my guard is up," they added. "It's just saying my ears are perked a little higher and my eyes are open a little wider."